St. Joan of Arc School

Please remind your students that their first Accelerated book this quarter is due Friday the 21st. Both fifth grade classrooms are doing recycling, they feel that this is important issue in the world. Anything they can work on in a group to improve a situation is fine with me. I will support them as much […]

I apologize for not adding to my blog. Many things are going on in the classroom. During Religion we used the laptops to find things we could do to help save the environment. Our Religion books refer to this as stewardship. The whole class found recycling as a very important thing to do for all ages. […]

It was very nice seeing all of you last night at Curriculum Night. I realize we didn’t have time for one-on-one questions so if you have any please contact me via email. I answer my email every morning before I come to school. Enjoy your week-end.

I hope you all had a enjoyable week-end. Please remember with the weather being cooler in the mornings a sweatshirt or light jacket would be a good idea. The children did a good job on their first Spelling test. Please encourage them to go over their words during the week. We are working on sentences […]

I hope all of you had an enjoyable Labor Day. We will be having a short week this week also. The teachers are having an Institute Day on Friday the 5th. For this reason their Spelling test will be on Thursday morning. Your children are very ethusiastic and very well behaved. Please encourage them to […]

Welcome back to all. I am really looking forward to the new year. I am planning on doing many creative things this year. I would like to tell you a little about myself being I will be your child’s teacher. This is my 31st year of teaching. I have only taught in Catholic School. I […]

Parents your child will receive an assignment today that will be due March 14th. The assignment is to research a National Park. They are to find out certain information on this park. Then they are to write a page about the park. They can include pictures if they want. They will give reports orally during […]

Parents I just wanted to let you know that it is time for the fatherhood essays. The students will be writing them in class and typing them in the computer lab. This year the title is “What My Father Dreams for Me.” We discussed ideas in class ande wrote our rough draft in class on […]

Parents, I hope you enjoyed the surprise snow-day this past Friday. I know all the teachers did. Well, we are back to work and concentration. I have two Reading groups doing diorama book reports. The other groups are keeping busy with various projects. Please continue to encourage your child to read their Accelerated Books. Don’t […]

Your child has just written a exercise in class about an object in the classroom. Mrs. Stock, a former SJA teacher worked with the students on this. The assignment was to be four paragraphs long. The first paragraph is a description. The second a memory of the object. the third a fantasy of the object. […]